Letter: Columnist hits mark with point on Islam

11:42 AM,
Oct. 6, 2012

Written by

Huck Long
Melbourne

In Don Gilleland's outstanding recent guest column, "Embassy attacks just the beginning," he made a number of excellent points, but one is especially noteworthy.

In commenting about the attack on our Libyan consulate, he stated: "We tend to treat Islam as though it is simply another religion. It is not. It is an ideology, a way of life, governed by Sharia law." This point is worth lots of attention because in allowing Muslims to have privileges under our constitutional freedom of religion provision, we are concurrently endangering our American freedoms. What is the basis of this statement?